These are Pin-Up playing card Queens created by an American artist, Jeff Chapman (Jeffach). He is a big admirer of women proceeding from his artworks. The queens happened to be vivid with substantial tattoos. Bathroom is quite intimate place to meet them. But don’t be sure that you have been able to catch these ladies unawares 🙂 … and the Queen of Diamonds is such a queen of diamonds – she doesn’t part with her diamonds even in her shower.
© Jeff Chapman (Jeffach) 2011
Pin-Up Playing Cards by Jeff Chapman: The Queen of Spades
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Tags: art, トランプ, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, girls, naipes, Pin-Up, Playing Card Art, playing cards, Spielkarte
An American Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design (Cum Laude from California State University, Sacramento), Sean Voegeli, designed playing card artwork devoted to the Native American culture. He combined patterns found in it with some modern design and illustration. Some queens have very stylish decollates 🙂
© Sean Voegeli
Native Playing Cards by Sean Voegeli: Tuck Case
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Bicycle Nouveau Playing Cards was the first playing card project by Bona Fide Playing Cards on Kickstarter. They decided to print it with the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). Unfortunately, people misappreciated this interesting deck, and it wasn’t funded. Bona Fide Playing Cards has taken into account some organizational and financial peculiarities of the Kickstarter playing card campaigns and restarted it… luckily without detriment to art and meaning content of this nice deck (only Eleanor of Aquitaine substituted Celtic Queen, Boudica – the Queen of Clubs).
Nouveau decks are inspired by the historical and mythological heroes and heroines traditionally featured in the French playing cards since the 16th century. As for the art style and design, Bona Fide Playing Cards wanted to pay tribute to the philosophical and artistic trend Art Nouveau, promoted and popularized in France and contemporary to the birth of the first Bicycle Playing Cards in the late 19th century. There will be two limited (this is about the first run) editions of the playing cards: Nouveau and Nouveau Turquoise Playing Cards
The decks are planned to be printed by the Expert Playing Card Company (EPCC).
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These are several playing card artworks created by a German artist, Silke Werzinger. She is a freelance illustrator with home in Berlin. Silke studied communication design in Nuremberg. Now she creates her artworks for different clients: Cosmopolitan, Deutsche Telekom, Electronic Arts, L’Oréal, ELLE Girl, Mavi Jeans, Mc Donalds, etc.
Silke has a really unique style. She proves sketches to be finished artworks. Enjoy this “sketchy” style.
© Silke Werzinger
Ex-Boyfriends by Silke Werzinger
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Tags: art, トランプ, cartas de baralho, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, Kunst, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing cards, Silke Werzinger, sketch, Spielkarte, 撲克牌
Lorenzo Gaggiotti (Stockholm17) started his third playing card project on Kickstarter. This deck, Bicycle №17 Playing Cards, is full of art and imagination as his previous two decks, Requiem Playing Cards and Heretic Playing Cards. Playing cards traditionally have a lot of hidden details, inscriptions, and meanings.
“There is no specific theme in this deck, it´s quite eclectic and I let my fantasy run when I illustrated the courts. The diamonds have clearly an Egyptian resemblance, but overall they belong to a parallel world. There is a thing that connects all the court cards: the text circling the background is a part of the Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.” ~ Lorenzo Gaggiotti
There will be five different decks in this No. 17 series. The Bicycle and Unbranded No. 17 decks are planned to be printed by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC).
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Tags: Aeneid, art, トランプ, Bicycle Playing Cards, carte da gioco, cartes à jouer, игральные карты, Lorenzo Gaggiotti, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, United States Playing Card Company
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 